{"id":4836,"date":"2020-03-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/?p=4836"},"modified":"2023-05-26T08:45:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T00:45:06","slug":"qing-ming-festival-praying-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/qing-ming-festival-praying-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Qing Ming Festival \u2013 Praying Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/202003_QM_Knowledge-756x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/202003_QM_Knowledge-756x1024.jpg 756w, https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/202003_QM_Knowledge-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/202003_QM_Knowledge-400x542.jpg 400w, https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/202003_QM_Knowledge.jpg 763w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Below are the steps on how to perform Qing Ming Prayers:<\/strong>&#8211;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Prayers at Xiao En Temple.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clean the cemetery area.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check for any needs of tombstone maintenance service.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Display the ancestor offerings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prayers for HouTu [Lord of the Ground].<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ancestor prayers ceremony: Prayers should be done in sequence according to the family\u2019s generation ranking: Father, mother, the eldest son, the eldest daughter, second son, second daughter and so on.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Joss paper burning.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inform ancestor upon leaving, go home and take a shower.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below are the steps on how to perform Qing Ming Prayers:&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"religion":[],"unit":[],"years":[],"productt":[],"pricing":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4839,"href":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions\/4839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"religion","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/religion?post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"unit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit?post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"productt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/productt?post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"pricing","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pricing?post=4836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}